Kay Yow Quotes
I feel like I had zero control over getting cancer, but I have 100 percent control over how I will respond to dealing with cancer.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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I have known I was destined to live in Goa the moment I first stepped foot on the Panjim docks from the ferry from Mumbai, when I was 18.
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You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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The first thing I do in the morning is take my vitamins. I don't want to say which vitamins; I don't think you should push what you believe in. Doctors should do that, not fashion designers.
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You know the marathon in my country is just exceptional. It's like soccer in England. If England win the world cup and Ethiopia win the marathon - it's the same.
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Don't fight forces, use them.
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Through the principle of associated habit, the same movements of the face and eyes are practised, and can, indeed, hardly be avoided, whenever we know or believe that others are blaming, or too strongly praising, our moral conduct.
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Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.
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We make our own labor unions. We organize our labor into units of 300, and then the representatives of these 300 meet together every week. Then every fortnight they meet with the head men.
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I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big - my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.
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The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.
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It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards National Book Award are always subjective.
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If something is worth doing, it is worth doing right. I take that one step further. You shouldn't do anything unless you do it right.
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When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I remember him saying how afraid he was that he hadn't gotten to do the things he wanted to do during his life. He had surgery and survived. And he's still alive today, thank God. But it made a big impact on me.
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I feel like I had zero control over getting cancer, but I have 100 percent control over how I will respond to dealing with cancer.
